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    243
  • Producer ranking ?

    40
  • Decanting time

    45min
  • When to drink

    Now

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The Story

Mas La Plana is a 29-hectare vineyard located in the heart of Penedès. The Cabernet Sauvignon vines were planted by Miguel A. Torres back in 1966. The vineyard has very deep, dark and yellowish brown soils. The topsoil is rich in sand and stones while the subsoil is gravel.

In the Paris Wine Olympiad, the 1970 vintage triumphed over some of the most famouswines in the world, including Chateau Latour. This success has been repeated on severa...

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Served blind alongside VCC 1983 and chosen because this was when this wine was riding the crest of the wave created when the 1970 did so exceptionally well in the 1976 Judgment of Paris tasting. It tasted sweet-fruited but had a rather rhubarby lack of freshness. It was soft and sweet rather than great and I wondered whether it was yet another old Californian. Labelled at a time when the words Cabernet Sauvignon were a badge of honour – especially but by no means exclusively in Spain. (At this time the wine was labelled 'Gran Coronas Mas La Plana' although nowadays these are two separate bottlings.)

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Origin

Catalunya, Penedès

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